MargaretKim
Assistant Professor of
English
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Queens Campus, St. John Hall, Rm. B40-12
(718) 990-5632
kimm@stjohns.edu
Office Hours, Spring 2006
Monday: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M.
Wednesday/Friday: 12:25 - 1:25 P.M.
Education
2000 Ph.D., English and American Literature and Language, Harvard
University.
1991 B.A., English, with Distinction, University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Dissertation
Vision of Theocratics: The Discourse of Politics
and
the Primacy of Religion in Piers Plowman. Committee: Derek
Pearsall, Larry Benson, and Daniel Donoghue. My dissertation
characterizes the politics of the poet Langland as
theocratics--politics within a theocratic framework, and it
analyzes Piers Plowman as a text that engages and problematizes the
relation between the religious and the political in its treatment
of social issues such as poverty and consumption.
Areas of Interest
Medieval Literature and Culture, Early Modern Literature and
Culture, World History, Travel Literature, Theory of Empire, Theory
of the Nation-State
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2002 NEH Summer Institute, Penn State: "Space and Society in the
Past"
1996-1997 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard
University
1991-1997 The English Prize Fellowship, Harvard University
Spring 1996 Mellon Grant, Harvard University
Summer 1994, 1995 Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Harvard
University
Summer 1990 Hilldale Undergraduate Fellowship, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Publications
Articles
"Invisible Man, Oral Culture, and Postmodernism,"
EurAmerica 30.1 (2000): 1-34
"Need, Hunger, and the Politics of Poverty in Piers Plowman"
Yearbook of Langland Studies 16 (2002): 313-68.
Conferences and Presentations
"Need, Hunger, and the Politics of Poverty in Piers Plowman"
Convivium: Poverty and Wealth in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, October 12,
2001
"Hunger and the Politics of Poverty." ANZAMEMS III Conference,
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, July 7,
2001
"The Poor and the Politics of Poverty in Piers Plowman."
Thirty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 5, 2000
"The Case against 'Wastors': The Theocratic Critique of
Consumption in Piers Plowman." Medieval Colloquium, Department of
English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University,
September 30, 1999
"The Poverty of Politics and the Politics of Poverty: Langland
and the Poor." Twentieth Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College,
New Hampshire, April 16, 1999
"The Profession of Need: Poverty and Politics in Piers Plowman."
Medieval Colloquium, Department of English and American Literature
and Language, Harvard University, April 2, 1998
"Narrative Voice(s) and Literary Authority in The Book of
Margery Kempe." The Harvard-Yale Conference for Graduate Students,
Yale University, Spring 1994
"Narrative Voice(s) and Literary Authority in The Book of
Margery Kempe" Thirteenth Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College,
New Hampshire, Spring 1992
"Editing Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes" Conference of
Hilldale Undergraduate Fellows, sponsored by the Honors Program,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 1990. This was a presentation
of my summer project for the Hilldale Undergraduate Fellowship, in
which I first learned about approaches to textual criticism and how
they could be applied to preparing an edition of Hoccleve's
Regement of Princes, a fifteenth-century political poem.
Teaching Experience
St. John's University
Undergraduate Core: Literature in Global Contexts
Special Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature:
Romance
Medieval English Literature
Readings: Medieval English Literature (Graduate Seminar)
Department of English, Rutgers
University
Full-Time Instructor, The Writing Program
Writing Grant Proposals January 2001-April 2001
Expository Writing September 2000-2001
Department of English and American
Literature and Language, Harvard University
Teaching Fellow and Tutor in the Undergraduate Honors Program
Literature and Arts, Core Program, Harvard University
Chaucer
The Story of Arthur
Chivalric Romances of the Middle Ages
The Rise of Mass Culture
The English Bible
Junior Tutorial in the Honors Program
Languages
French, Latin, Spanish, and Chinese